Numbers 14:1-12
Israel’s Rebellion

1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

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2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

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3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

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4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

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5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

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6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

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7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, [is] an exceeding good land.

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8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

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9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they [are] bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD [is] with us: fear them not.

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10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

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11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

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12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

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